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Hello House.

Please I applied for a Canadian visit Visa for the 21st January to 31st January 2024. I made a hotel reservation via booking.com and they deducted deposit. I just received a mail from booking.com yesterday that my hotel reservation is cancelled. The hotel just cancelled the reservation without notice.

I am worried that the embassy might contact the hotel, and they are told I don't have any reservation. Please Advice me, should i make another reservation with another hotel, or what? Is there a way to update details of application to make them know i have changed location?

I did biometric on the 13th of november, and i just read that it takes about 3 months to get response. and by then my travel date might have passed. If my travel date passes and i have not gotten response, will the visa be denied ?

Please advice.

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Hello House.

Please I applied for a Canadian visit Visa for the 21st January to 31st January 2024. I made a hotel reservation via booking.com and they deducted deposit. I just received a mail from booking.com yesterday that my hotel reservation is cancelled. The hotel just cancelled the reservation without notice.

I am worried that the embassy might contact the hotel, and they are told I don't have any reservation. Please Advice me, should i make another reservation with another hotel, or what? Is there a way to update details of application to make them know i have changed location?

I did biometric on the 13th of november, and i just read that it takes about 3 months to get response. and by then my travel date might have passed. If my travel date passes and i have not gotten response, will the visa be denied ?

Please advice.

Please do not quote me, as there is bug here that hides responses to my comment. Please respond without quoting...

Good day people,

I have been to UK only once last year on 6 months visa, and i plan to apply for 5 years under same circumstance. A friend of mine who also visited once last year, applied for 10 years straight and was granted.

I read somewhere here that someone applied for 10 years and was given 6 months. I am afraid that i could apply for 5 years with this current exchange rate and be given less than that.

Any ideas ?

Can someone respond to this my post without quoting me? i noticed the site blocks replies which quote me.

I want to know if i should proceed to apply for 5 years or go for 2 years from 6 months.

Good day people,

I have been to UK only once last year on 6 months visa, and i plan to apply for 5 years under same circumstance. A friend of mine who also visited once last year, applied for 10 years straight and was granted.

I read somewhere here that someone applied for 10 years and was given 6 months. I am afraid that i could apply for 5 years with this current exchange rate and be given less than that.

Any ideas ?

Hello Guys, i Have a question. Please dont quote me, else the site will ban you.

You can just type my moniker in your reply.

I visited the UK for 20 days and i am back to Nigeria. I still have about 3 months valid visa left.

I want to apply for a visit around august, but i want to do it early enough.

Can i apply now against august with the valid 3 months visa i have, or should i wait till it expires?

Also, Some people are saying i have to apply for another 6 months, before i can apply for 2 years. Can i apply for 2 years Visa straight after the first 6 months, or must i apply for another 6 months?

Waiting for response. Thanks

Can someone answer my question without quoting me? I don't know why the site keeps banning people who quote me.

Hello Guys, i Have a question. Please dont quote me, else the site will ban you.

You can just type my moniker in your reply.

I visited the UK for 20 days and i am back to Nigeria. I still have about 3 months valid visa left.

I want to apply for a visit around august, but i want to do it early enough.

Can i apply now against august with the valid 3 months visa i have, or should i wait till it expires?

Also, Some people are saying i have to apply for another 6 months, before i can apply for 2 years. Can i apply for 2 years Visa straight after the first 6 months, or must i apply for another 6 months?

Waiting for response. Thanks

Finally received the passport with the VISA after over 3 months. Now looking for cheap ticket in December, cants seem to find, might move to January .

Delay was probably from the VAC in Abuja..

Has anyone been lucky with BTA lately ? Which bank did you get from ?

Please dont quote me, as the bot on this site could ban you.

Lexyp:
Good day house ,pls want to ask a quick question, a decision on my application was overturned and was asked to return my passport which i did going to a week now, my question is does anyone know the time frame i will be asked to come pick it up? Thanks in advance.

Hi, Have you received your passport?

YankeeJJC:
any update about your passport?

Nothing. This week makes it 12 weeks. Sent mail, i was told decision has been made, i should wait 10 working days to be contacted. 10 working days elapsed today. Still no contact.

Though i cant travel Now except December, but i need to get the passport to make flight reservations.

Pekela:
Hello house

I applied for a family visit visa on the 30th of June and got this refusal yesterday. I have been paying myself salaries between 400k to 500k for the past one year from my company and my company name is shown in all the credits in my bank statements without no single credit from other accounts. However the ECO wrongly mentioned that they noticed I received money from undeclared source.

Please do you advise I go administrative review?

NOTE: DO NOT QUOTE ME, THE SITE WILL BAN YOU.

One of the mistakes we self employed applicants make, is to quote high earnings. This is a big trap, because you will have to defend it. This is why its easier for those working for companies to get visa than self employed. The moment you present yourself as a self employed person, the attention of the ECO moves from your personal account to your business account.

Their aim is to find out if that your business makes enough money to pay the salary you claim to earn. So for someone that earns N5,000,000 annually, it will be expected that your company account will show a turnover of over at least N30,000,000.

Now that you have said your earn N5,000,000, These are the 2 things you must do to get the visa.

1) Audit your business account to show expenses and profit. Present both audit report and bank statement of your company.

2) You will have to pay a progressive tax for 3 years to match your annual income. When you have done this, you will now be issued tax clearance certificate.

When your present the 2 and they are convinced that your business generates enough money, you will have your visa.

Failure to do this, will result in another refusal. But if you do as i have said, you are sure of getting it the next time.

Talking from experience.

Adebayo347:
I need someone to put me through on appeal / judicial review . This is my second refusal and reapplying will make me look desperate but this is so unfair !
I Submitted
CAC document
Business account
Personal account
Landed document
Car receipt
World traveller insurance
Cover letter
Sponsor documents :uncle : British passport , pay slip s three month , P60 and invitation later
Travel history: Dubai (work and visits )
Georgia (Europe)
Seychelles
Kenya
Ghana
Republic of Benin
And while the application was going on with keep my passport option ( went to Rwanda)

My Question is :
Can’t my economic circumstances improve ? In 6 months a lot has happened - Inflation , dollar increase . My business is general trading , logistics . I can’t evaluate how much I will make in a year in its appropriate figures but the facts are presented in the account statement that is why it is requested

It is more difficult to get UK visa as a self employed person than someone employed. The truth is that there is nothing to challenge here. You made your case worse by reapplying and increasing that figure.

Before you will be given UK visa, you will have to spend nothing less than 4,000,000 based on the profile you have created for yourself.

This what you must do if you still want the visa.

An auditor will audit your business account for 3 years and deduct expenses until the amount u stated as yearly income is arrived at as profit. Assuming 50 million came into your account in 1 year, 41,000,000 will be expenses and 9,000,000 your profit for the year. you will pay tax of about 800,000 on that 9,000,000 x 3 years =2,400,000.

Then you are given tax clearance.

Note you will have to provide your bank statements for those years to the auditor, depending on how long your business have been.

You will submit the audit report for 3 years, and tax clearance showing you paid tax on the said amount for 3 years.

Thats the only grounds your visa will be given.

You can try to apply with only the audit report without tax. Then if they refuse and request for tax, Then you go and pay that tax and apply again.

As a self employed person, you have to provide more evidence and documentation than any other applicant.

ensure that you do not provide any fake audit report as this should appear in your bank statement. Anything fake will result in automatic ban.

For self employed people, be careful of how much u claim you earn, as you might have to back it up with tax and audit report.

FINALLY, DONT QUOTE ME, AS THE SYSTEM WILL BAN YOU.

Lexyp:
Good day house ,pls want to ask a quick question, a decision on my application was overturned and was asked to return my passport which i did going to a week now, my question is does anyone know the time frame i will be asked to come pick it up? Thanks in advance.

I am in the same position, visit visa overturned after 4 months. Mine is a month now since i summitted, checking my mail daily. After waiting for 4 months, i have to wait again. But im not in a hurry sha.

I requested the passport be sent via DHL, and paid through TLS.

Dont quote me ooo. I dont know whats wrong with this site. It will ban u.

Oggg:
Guys avoid quoting the chap with ‘questionnigeria’ name.. i dnt want to write it out.. u will be blocked by spam bot..
I just rememberd what happn to me all the other times i tried in the past to reply him.. i think it has started picking people up alrdy

I think so too, because i have never received any response from anyone here, who quoted me.

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Guys i am so happy, my refusal has been overturned and i have been asked to submit my passport . Now i just checked flight and its 50k going and 50k coming back. I dont know if its possible for me to send and receive my passport through DHL. I am searching to find a contact phone number for TLS Abuja?

Does anyone know if its possible or will i need to be there physically and do Biometrics again to pick up the Visa.

It was a long 4 months wait, but God is faithful.

Zarahmum:
Please house i need help on how to go for administrative review on my application or advise on what to do because I was wrongly refused by the eco, I received the refusal letter this morning with my kids own.
The eco stated that I want to spend 21 days meanwhile I stated in my application that we want to spend 14days.

And also he said my business is unknown on CAC search and that my business is not trading which is all lies..

Meanwhile my business is active on CAC search website, I have always been paying my annual return since 2016 and I have evidence of all my payments and my tax which I submitted all.

And also my husband has UK 10 years visa and he said in the introduction letter that we are all going together and he will be the one to sponsor our trip why i will add little of my quota but the eco refused my kids because he stated he refused because i am the one sponsoring the trip meanwhile it is all lies, it is like the eco has a preconcluded mind before making a decision on our application...

Please house i need help on how to go about this, please kind the refusal paper and the search results of my business on cac

I am not an expert, neither am i in a position to advice you, But I will share my experience with you.

I had a similar experience as you, the only difference is that in my own case, the only reason that was given is that my business was not found on the CAC website. In visit VISA applications most times, you don't have the right to appeal, the only option is to go for judicial review, which involves the court. But before then, you can write a preaction protocol letter to the home office.

I wrote a pre-action protocol letter to the home office, narrating the decision and pointing out the error of the clearance officer with screenshot evidence that my business is active on CAC.

By default, they will have to respond in 14 days. 13 days after i wrote, they responded and requested for another 14 days for a substantial response . The second 14 days came and they responded, stating that " The secretary of State has reviewed the decision and will now proceed to reconsider the decision based on the information i have provided. They said the believe the solution they have provided is good enough, but if i still want to proceed with judicial review, i am free to do so.

They stated that i will be contacted within 3 months of receiving the letter, it is almost 2 months now and I am still waiting.

So you might want to reapply and point all these out through a cover letter, provide more evidence of business transactions, audit, tax etc. Or you follow the preaction protocol method.

Note: if your husband is funding the trip, he should state exactly how much he is making available, present his own bank statement, tax etc.

Hello house, i posted some weeks ago about how my visit Visa was refused, because the ECO said they searched for my business on CAC but no record was found.

The ECO made a mistake in the name and category of business. I wrote several complaint mails without response. Then I began the process of going for judicial review, by sending a PAP.

The responded and asked to be given another 2 weeks to respond. After the 2 weeks they responded that the secretary of state has reviewed the decision and will proceed to reconsider it, based on the information i provided . Also that i will be contacted within 3 months of receiving the letter. But i can still proceed with the judicial review if i want, but they believe that the solution they have provided is good enough.

Now the time frame for Judicial review is 3 months from refusal date, which will elapse at the end of march. Should i go ahead with the judicial review process or wait to be contacted within the 3 months as they requested ?

Has anyone gone through this route before ?

Pandaaa:
Hello

Help me b4 UKVI drives me crazy.

I was refused visa on the 14th of October.
The reason is that i didn't meet up with the financial requirements, but I did.

So I went for an Administrative review the same day. I heard nothing from this UK home office until 17th of December.

I was notified of my successful administrative review.

But till now they have not reached me on any decision made yet.

I used the paid enquiry to escalated the matter, they sent an email that a decision has been made but they can't disclose it on line( this one was happening last month) that I should wait for 15 working days, that they will reach me.

I am still waiting.oooh,

I don't know my left from my right, too much uncertainties concerning the visa application.

I disturbed thier life with the paid enquiry, they are still saying the same thing, the Home office is busy, wait for 15days your issue has been escalated.
I have waited for 15days 2 times now.

Is there any other thing i can do? Any other channel I cam use and mount pressure in them?

Hello,

Please was it visit visa that you applied for? Did you apply from Nigeria?

How did you go about administrative review? because i know visit visa refusals don't have that right.

They made a clear mistake in my case and they have not responded to several mails i have sent.

Please house, has anyone ever gotten the British Embassy to reverse reverse a decision by writing letters? I don't know if I should write a pre action protocol letter for my case, and threaten legal action or reapply.

They cant make such a mistake and have Nigerians pay for their own mistakes.

Gentlesoul3268:
Thank you very much Ma Ameliia....I really appreciate your concerned yesterday.

I have sent an email to UKVI complaint department for wrongly denied my wife for a large fund deposit the ECO mentioned.


Now I was told to reapply immediately to counter the refusal letter on a ground by providing the statement of account where I transferred the money into my wife bank account.

I used my personal bank statement to transferred the money to her which I used the account for miscellaneous and domestic stuff at times, Although I have a salary account which showing a steading 550k monthly salary.

We will write a cover letter to address the reason Eco wrongly denied my wife and the kids, also to provide my salary account, personal account I used to transferred the money into her acct, my payslips, and my work ID card, previous bank statement indicating the salary and 1.5m sponsorship fund apart from that no any other funds.


Please is that a good ideas?

All the gurus ...leef,, madam, cutebear , Ameila, Giselle and everyone

Hello,

Please did they respond to your complaint mail and ask you to reapply?

Hi all.

This is an automated email i got after sending the mail to complaint at ukgov email. There is a part that says, the outcome of a visa decision, will not be treated as a complaint. Does it mean the complaint email does not deal with visa decisions?

Should i get a lawyer to write to them? If a lawyer should write to them, where should it be addressed to ?

Thanks


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Good Morning all

Please is it advisable to get a lawyer to write to the embassy here and request for a review. In my case, there is a clear error, but i have been denied right to appeal. I have applied twice and don't want to go through that process again.

Will getting a lawyer to write them help? Has anyone done it before? Whats the process ?

luiginho2xl:
I was banned by the bot yesterday while trying to reply Ask..naija. It seems that's why you've not been getting replies to your queries.

I am sorry to hear that u were banned. I guess it was because of that email about comp-laint. Sent email to public enquiry, filled complaint form, also sent mail to complaint.

Got one emails saying they don't assess application and if the letter says i have no right to appeal, i should consider reapplying. Please what suggestion do you have ?

The process of applying is too stressful. Not only the time but money involved. This matter is a simple one and if there was a way to get them to review, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

rigvod:
Ask naija there is a problem with replying you. I habe been banned by sp@mbot . I think you should go the way of reconsideratxxx… apply thru d c0mpl… email.. i cnt write it in full maybe thts why i was gettin blocked.

Thanks for the response. I have sent mails to public enquiry and the complai-nt mail. Got one response that says the can not assess cases or advice. That I should refer to the letter given to know if i have right to appeal, else I should reapply. Why will I apply 3 times for a mistake on their part? Still thinking of what next to do.

Hellooooo.

Am i invisible on this platform ? Can anyone read my message ? My Visa application was refused, because the decision maker claims that there was no result for my business when CAC website was searched. But they searched for EXAMPLE ABC instead of ABC enterprise. This business registration documents has the name clearly written on it.

So why will my application be refused for a mistake made by the officer? Denying me right of appeal and when the officer makes a mistake is very humiliating .

I am not asking for them to give me visa, but let the decision maker do the right thing. If the officer is convinced that the business does not exist, then he or she should have declared all the information i provided as fake. And then ban me for 10 years.

There is no way i will provide bank statements, business registration, tax, invoices for a non-existing business. Can the knowledgeable people on this forum intervene ?

I hope my posts are visible.

Can someone go through my refusal and advise please?

Can someone please advise me on steps to take on my refusal. Each of these applications cost me N250,000, i have done it twice, I dont want to spend such money for a mistake made by the clearance officer. Please how can i get them to look into this decision, when i don,t have right to appeal?

Can someone kindly guide me on steps to take to correct the mistake on my visa refusal? Its really painful when you spend your money and time to ensure everything is complete. Only for a refusal based on the mistake of the ECO.

Hello house. I came across this site in search of information. I got a refusal letter from the UK embassy in Nigeria. The reason they gave was that the search they did on my business name returned no result.

They made a mistake in the name. The searched for EG ABC instead of ABC enterprise.

I wrote a cover letter with a letter headed paper, bearing company name. I even included business registration documents. Yet they made a mistake in the name. The name shows active on the CAC website.

I applied before and was refused, stating that i did not include a document in my application. I reapplied again and included it and they made a mistake. I dont want to spend money or go through the application process again.

And it says i have no right to appeal.

Please can someone tell me what steps to take. Please its urgent.